‘Girl at the Spring’ mosaic, str. Ștefan cel Mare 5, Bălți

‘Girl at the Spring’ mosaic, str. Ștefan cel Mare 5, Bălți ‘Girl at the Spring’ mosaic, str. Ștefan cel Mare 5, Bălți ‘Girl at the Spring’ mosaic, str. Ștefan cel Mare 5, Bălți ‘Girl at the Spring’ mosaic, str. Ștefan cel Mare 5, Bălți ‘Girl at the Spring’ mosaic, str. Ștefan cel Mare 5, Bălți
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A monumental mosaic on the gable end of a Soviet apartment block (bloc locativ) at str. Ștefan cel Mare 5, in the central part of Bălți, a few hundred metres southwest of the bus station. The panel, known by its Russian title «Девушка у источника» (Girl at the Spring), shows a young woman in folk dress bending to drink from a spring that pours into a green basin — a genre scene handled in a folkloric register. The smalt is in warm tones of terracotta, ochre, blue and cream, set against a granular grey field. The work belongs to an unusually dense group of late-Soviet facade mosaics applied to the gable ends of five-storey ‘Khrushchyovka’ prefab blocks in the central micro-district — a rare concentration, systematically photographed and released under CC0 by the photographer photobankmd. Bălți is Moldova's second city, the ‘northern capital’. The author and year are not documented.

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Bălți
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Bloc locativ, str. Ștefan cel Mare 5, Bălți

Photos: photobankmd (CC0)